(a.) Full of, or covered with, patches; abounding in patches.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cytochrome oxidase histochemistry revealed patchy patterns of the enzyme activity in transverse sections through the caudal part of the ventral subnucleus of the principal sensory trigeminal nucleus, interpolar spinal trigeminal nucleus, and layer IV of the caudal spinal trigeminal nucleus in the cat.
(2) RCA-1, which is specific for D-galactose, showed patchy fluorescence on the basal and distal portions of the outer segments of the cones and rods, whereas neuraminidase-treated sections had uniform fluorescence throughout the tissues.
(3) These leiomyomas differ from those seen in pregnancy in their cellularity, patchy hemorrhage, and edema.
(4) The case seemed to be best classified as the patchy demyelination type, but the most unusual finding was a prominent vasculature in some demyelinated areas.
(5) Intestinal amyloid deposits, present 16 months before the clinical diagnosis of amyloidosis, were patchy and seen predominantly in the intestinal mucosa.
(6) But the unvaccinated child or children left behind are not the only ones at risk in a complicated and patchy effort to control the number of wild poliovirus cases found in Pakistan, which shot up from 58 in 2012 to 306 last year .
(7) Nor – despite today's declaration that the three-day meeting had been a resounding success – was there more than patchy progress.
(8) Necrosis was patchy in Glioma 522 and Mel-mo, but predominantly central in B16 and Lewis lung tumour.
(9) In the methylprednisolone group, 14 dogs had no adhesions; one had filmy adhesions; and none had dense patchy or dense diffuse adhesions.
(10) No other epithelia showed signs of L1 production, although occasional patchy uptake was indicated, particularly in kidney tubular epithelium.
(11) In the nucleus accumbens and ventral putamen (ventral striatum), a patchy distribution of beta 1 receptors was observed that was not evident in the rat.
(12) About one half of the patients showed in MR-images diffuse or patchy areas of decreased signal intensity in the regions of the bone marrow, while the bone marrow of the volunteers showed an almost homogeneous pattern with high signal intensity.
(13) Evidence of patchy periventricular hyperintensity representing presumed deep white matter infarction was sought in 20 patients shunted for normal-pressure hydrocephalus and in 35 additional consecutive patients with clinical symptoms and MR findings consistent with normal-pressure hydrocephalus.
(14) In nine specimens removed 5 days to 16 months after embolization therapy, a series of pathologic changes was seen, including patchy mural angionecrosis (adjacent to bucrylate fragments) up to six weeks after embolization, the presence of bucrylate in vessel walls and fibromuscular intimal cushions, and the occurrence (after several months) of entirely extravascular bucrylate.
(15) It showed patchy areas of coagulation necrosis in the cytoplasm of damaged myocardial cells which were not visualized with HE.
(16) Three reproduction photographers were found to have light patchy and reticular infiltrates on the chest x-rays.
(17) Lung histology showed interstitial edema and patchy atelectasis, features which are found also in the early stages of post-traumatic pulmonary insufficiency.
(18) Gastric antral endoscopic pinch biopsies from a group of dyspeptic patients were analysed for acute and chronic inflammatory cell numbers in the lamina propria and surface epithelial layer using computer-linked graphic tablet planimetry, and independently graded for Campylobacter pylori (CP) infection using a visual scoring system with grade 1 assessed as patchy epithelial infection and grade 2 as a continuous layer of organisms on the mucosal surface extending into gastric pits.
(19) Though endomyocardial biopsy is becoming a standard procedure at many medical centers, tissue sampling, especially in cases of patchy myocarditis, can result in further diagnostic difficulties.
(20) In two dogs, the reentrant circuit was located intramurally in close proximity to a patchy septal infarction.
Uneven
Definition:
(a.) Not even; not level; not uniform; rough; as, an uneven road or way; uneven ground.
(a.) Not equal; not of equal length.
(a.) Not divisible by two without a remainder; odd; -- said of numbers; as, 3, 7, and 11 are uneven numbers.
Example Sentences:
(1) The local guide led us down a rough, uneven pathway, talking as he went.
(2) Using EIOM the determination of the homogeneous and uneven components of respiratory resistance was possible in control animals, whereas in AAE group resistance was entirely represented by its uneven component.
(3) While there has been some unevenness in the extent to which successful risk reeducation has occurred, it is nonetheless dramatic compared with prior health educational efforts, and especially so given the exceptional sensitivity of the sexual and illicit drug using behaviors at issue.
(4) "Of course this recovery which is starting is likely to be choppy and uneven.
(5) However, the number of abortion providers declined by five percent between 1982 and 1985, and the geographic distribution of abortion services continued to be markedly uneven.
(6) Tillerson described US progress on sanctions alongside China as uneven.
(7) The redistribution of the elderly population in the United States is receiving increased attention as the sociodemographic consequences of the uneven geography of the aged are becoming more evident to state and local policymakers.
(8) In most of the cases of MML there were unevenly distributed poorly defined leukemic, infiltrates in the renal cortex and medulla.
(9) Macroscopic and microscopic examination of plaster models obtained from impressions with alginate mass Kromopan Super and silicone mass Dentaflex Pasta confirmed that leaving of saliva and blood on the surface of impressions causes uneven surface of plaster models.
(10) A wide but uneven distribution was substantiated for the rat brain.
(11) The uneven geographic distribution of physicians has been identified as a significant problem for the delivery of health care services.
(12) What Katrina left behind: New Orleans' uneven recovery and unending divisions Read more Ten years on, resentment still lingers about the failure of the federal levee system during hurricane Katrina, the botched response of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema), and the long and difficult process of accessing billions of dollars in grant money for rebuilding, which for some people is not finished.
(13) The computerized tomographic scans showed uneven wear of the glenoid surface, osteophytes, large cysts, and posterior displacement of the humeral head.
(14) The regional CMP distributions in the brains were uneven on both the 2nd and 7th experimental days.
(15) They are uneven ventilation throughout the lung; redistribution of regional pulmonary blood flow between zones due to gravity; nonuniform pulmonary blood flow between individual metarteriolar-capillary networks because of local vasoconstriction; uneven systemic blood flow between organs; irregular systemic blood flow at the microcirculatory level, producing inadequate nutritional flow to the tissues; and redistribution of body water, leading particularly to fluid accumulation in the extracellular compartment, with expanded interstitial space and contracted plasma volume (hypovolemia).
(16) Jeegar Kakkad at EEF, the manufacturers' organisation When viewed in the context of previous, often uneven recoveries, UK economic growth remains healthy with manufacturing enjoying the best 12 months since 1994.
(17) The hypotonic treatment was shown to result in differential decondensation of chromosomes which consists in the uneven distribution of deoxyribonucleoprotein (DNP) fibrils along chromatids.
(18) Mortality statistics were used to check the previously observed uneven geographical distribution of multiple sclerosis (MS) in Finland, and also to compare the distribution of tuberculosis and MS with each other.
(19) Additional impairments occur in a large percentage of patients, but are unevenly distributed in the disease groups.
(20) The uneven distribution of long term mentally ill patients suggests that community pyschiatric resources might be better targeted at those practices with higher numbers of such patients.